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Kickstart your AI capability
Access the first module of Practical:AI Foundations for free.
At PracticalAI, we compare AI to the humble spreadsheets every business uses – it’s an incredibly powerful tool, but 20 years ago without some basic skills and training it might have been mistaken for just a silly gimmick.
The truth is, just like the humble spreadsheet, AI will be a game-changer for every business and professional across all industries – if you know how to use it.
- Access the first module of Practical:AI Foundations for free.
- Share with your team to quickly form a common understanding of the new capabilities and challenges that AI brings.
- Watch to the end for a preview of the rest of the Foundations workshop.
The full Foundations Workshop also contains modules on Prompt Engineering, Image Generation and a deep dive on Risks and practical use cases.
Still waiting for the AI hype to turn into real value?
Does your team see AI as a Tool or a Toy?
System-level knowledge depends on tool-level knowledge
Normally the adoption of tools and techniques takes care of itself, teams organically develop skills and acquire new ones as people join.
That’s a status quo that’s held true for so long we’ve forgotten how to adapt to a faster pace of change. Imagine how hard it would be to create new systems and processes if your team didn’t understand similar tools?
- Could you have a data strategy if Excel skills weren’t common knowledge?
- Would app development be possible at a company where only 1 in 10 owned a mobile phone?
- Remember the challenge of maintaining brand consistency before Canva and Figma?
‘Wait and see’ won’t be a viable AI strategy
We take tool knowledge for granted but when the pace of change is this extreme the adoption of AI skills will be uneven if left to the usual Youtube ‘One weird trick…’ videos and vendor ‘Lunch & Learns’ pace of change.
ChatGPT launched Nov 2022 and could summarise text, today it can complete PhD level research paper tasks and perform tasks as varied as extracting CV details to writing meeting action items. Not since mobile phones or potentially even the internet itself have we seen a technology mature as quickly as AI is currently.
No signs of AI slowing down
AI isn't following the normal S-curve
Normally in tech we see a burst of progress followed by a plateau, a pause that gives us all time to adopt to the new normal.
Researchers looking at AI aren’t seeing any sign of that plateau coming in 2025 or beyond. To quote the AI research firm Epoch AI:
“…To put this 4x annual growth in AI training compute into perspective, it outpaces even some of the fastest technological expansions in recent history.
It surpasses the peak growth rates of:
- Solar energy capacity installation 1.5x/year
- Mobile phone adoption 2x/year
- Human genome sequencing 3.3x/year
AI Benefits
Boost your Productivity
Automate those mind numbing tasks and offload drudge work to free up time for the important stuff.
Raise the Floor
AI isn't a match in your area of expertise but it's a world class expert in everything else.
Spark Innovation
Supercharge your brainstorming with new ideas and solutions you might not have thought of before.
Improve Customer Experience
Offer personalised services that'll have your customers raving.
Testimonials
Nicole Stirling
CEO
“…I knew we should be getting so much more value from AI (for our clients, and for our agency) but despite my team dabbling, spending time reading articles and watching videos about it we didn’t see it translating into outcomes.
Practical:AI provided us with clear guidance on how we can achieve commercial value from AI. The day after the workshop the team immediately started making use of what they were taught and now it’s common behaviour to head to ChatGPT, and not Google for our research, design, copywriting and anything that requires analysis.” - Nicole Stirling
Paul Armstrong
Independent Consultant
“…a fantastic learning experience.
This course would be valuable to everyone, especially public servants who may have recently lost their jobs, and public services trying to figure out how to replace what their people used to do.
This is not a moment to look back. This course enables the motivated to not only look forward but practice how to start moving forward.” - Paul Armstrong
Dave Knight
B2B Sales coach
“Such a valuable course. A great day with a fabulous group.
If you are a business owner, founder, sole trader, this course will help you leverage the power of AI. Importantly you will learn its (current) limits and get actionable insights in how to get the best from this emerging tech.
Much more than AI buzz… this is substantial content and tools!” - Dave Knight
Workshops
Practical:AI Foundation
Our half-day Foundations workshop will equip you with:
- AI Theory (That Won’t Put You to Sleep): Understand how AI ticks under the hood without needing a math PhD.
- Extracting real business value: AI is an endless goldmine of value, learn how to ‘mine’ it safely.
- Risks and challenges: Learn about what is meant when we say AI “hallucinates”, the biases, risks and how they can be managed.
- The new frontier: AI has upended the status quo to the extent everything will need to be revalauated, learn to seperate the low-hanging fruit from the AI Slop.
Price: $499 (incl GST, per person)
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Practical:AI Skills (Coming Soon)
A full-day, hands-on course to boost your AI productivity:
- Prompt Engineering: In-depth explanation of prompt engineering techniques to reliably extract the most value from LLM models.
- RCCT: The Role/Context/Constraint/Task framework for building complex prompts out of reusable components.
- Image Generation: How it functions under the hood and advanced approaches to generate
- Advanced use cases: Covering use cases such as content creation, business metric extraction and data analysis.
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Practical:AI Advanced (Coming Soon)
A full-day, deep dive for those ready to take their AI skills to the next level:
- Prompt chaining: Master the technique of chaining prompts to generate everything from business plans to functioning software.
- Coding for non-coders: Creating functioning apps and software in hours regardless of coding ability.
- API access: Explore both low-code and no-code options for accessing the various LLM API providers, including overview of their consumption pricing models.
- Automation and Risks: Discussion of opportunities and potential pitfalls in incorporating AI into automation workflows.
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Practical:AI User Group
All courses come with exercises and 3 months of updates. Students can then subscribe ongoing to stay up-to-date with the latest AI developments.
- Workshop Exercises: Throughout the workshop we’ll walk through exercises that you can complete at your own pace later via the portal.
- AI Content: Practical:AI maintains a library of resources from glossaries of common terms, prompt engineering guides and video content.
- Community: The portal also serves as a community hub where you can engage with current and prior students of Practical:AI’s workshops.
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About the Instructors
Our workshops are led by tech veterans with over 20 years of experience in AI and Machine Learning. We’re not about vague strategies or far-future speculation - we focus on the transformative tools available today and practical skills you can apply immediately.
Steve’s 20+ Journey from Machine Learning to AI
- 2003 Built Linear Regression models to forecast international call volumes.
- 2005 Ran predictive time-series models for over 80 million phone calls processed by his startup.
- 2009 Integrated modern forecasting models for City of London clients post-2008 crash.
- 2010 Developed an automated RFP Q&A response tool using Natural Language Processing (still in use today).
- 2014 Product Manager for a pioneering big-data marketing platform.
- 2018 Completed Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning Specialisation.
- 2021 Created first OpenAI account (pre-ChatGPT) to use DALLE for content generation.
- 2023 Tasked GPT-4 to code a functioning Tetris clone from scratch.
- 2024 Built a SaaS startup and product in four months using just AI.
The Practical:AI Difference
Kiwi Experts
Our instructors aren't just tech gurus; they're locals who understand the unique challenges and opportunities of doing business in New Zealand.
No Fluff, Just Stuff
We cut through the tech jargon and USA hype-cycle to focus on practical skills you can use today.
Hands On Learning
We're all about learning by doing, you'll get your hands dirty with real AI tools and techniques.
Ongoing Support
Join our Practical:AI User Group for continued learning and networking with other AI savvy Kiwis.
Start Today!
Access Intro & Theory for free
Kickstart your AI capability
Access the first module of Practical:AI Foundations for free.
The first module of Practical:AI Foundations is available to everyone to help kickstart your AI capability.
- AI Theory (That Won’t Put You to Sleep): Understand how AI ticks under the hood without needing a math PhD.
- Extracting real business value: AI is an endless goldmine of value, learn how to ‘mine’ it safely.
- Risks and challenges: Learn about what is meant when we say AI “hallucinates”, the bias risks and how they can be managed.
- The new frontier: AI has upended the status quo to the extent everything will need to be reevaluated, learn to separate the low-hanging fruit from the AI slop.